If you are even a little bit familiar with Rocky Mountain School of Photography, you probably already know that our educational opportunities are packaged into three programs: Career Training, Workshops and Weekends. Today, these three programs have lives of their own and continue to offer excellent opportunities for photographers around the world. What you might [...]
The field of photography is changing faster than ever before—and this was especially apparent to me last month when a group of us from RMSP headed to New York for the annual PhotoPlus International Conference and Expo. My wife, Jeanne (who is our School Director), our son Forest, and I had never attended before. Marcy [...]
Welcome to Part II of my two-part post on tilt-shift lenses. Part I addressed the tilt function of these unique tools. This week, I will be talking about the other control that is available – the shift. To put it VERY simply, shifting the lens (either up, down, left or right) gives the photographer the [...]
I’m pretty sure Henri Cartier-Bresson didn’t have insect mating in mind when he coined the photographic term “decisive moment,” but I can’t think of a phrase that better describes these momentary opportunities that often happen by surprise. More often than not catching insects mating at the decisive moment is just dumb luck, although it helps [...]
Few things are more iconic of the older style of photography than that of the photographer using a view camera with a black cloth over their head. I know that when I was a kid, I viewed a serious photographer as one of those people. Needless to say, things have changed quite a bit since [...]
As a photographer, Neil Chaput de Saintonge has no more favorite subject matter than the art of ballet and the performers who embody it. I sat down with him recently to discuss this love and his experience with shooting the national touring company, The Moscow Ballet, during their performances in our home state of Montana. How did [...]
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